Proyas and Mignola team for "Joe Golem and the Drowning City"

[Sawyer]

Deadline:

Comic-Con: Alex Proyas And ‘Hellboy’ Creator Mike Mignola Team On ‘Joe Golem And The Drowning City’
By MIKE FLEMING

EXCLUSIVE: Constantin Film has acquired Joe Golem And The Drowning City, a graphic novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Alex Proyas is set to adapt and direct the live action feature, which will be shot in his native Australia. The book was published in March by St. Martin’s Press and is the second collaboration by Mignola and Golden, who also teamed on Baltimore.

The title is a supernatural-steampunk illustrated novel that follows an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem—a man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgotten–as they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan. In this vision, lower Manhattan sank into the water during a catastrophic earthquake in 1925, leaving those unwilling or unable to abandon it to make a new life in streets turned to canals.

The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson are producing with Mystery Clock’s Proyas and Peter Donaldson. Mignola and Golden are exec producing. CAA reps Proyas.

Proyas doing Mignola material should be good. They have my attention.

 

[Figs]

Proyas doing Mignola material should be good. They have my attention.

Hell yeah!

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Sounds interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on this.

 

[Gianakin_]

Fingers crossed. I need Proyas to make a comeback. I don't what happened to him (or his Dracula: Year Zero project).

 

[matrix_ghost]

And this project no ( insert number here) which Proyas is going make .
Seriously he's been attached to various projects but none of them seem to get off the ground.

 

[Sawyer]

True, but eventually one is going to stick..... right?

 

[Vapor]

I just want Proyas to do a live action/mo-cap Thundercats....... but this sounds pretty interesting too.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Proyas and Mignola? Oh, hell yes.

 

[redhawk23]

Fantastic news, I hope this comes together.

Word has it that this will shoot in Australia.

 

[bubbadoom]

Sounds good ~ hope Mignola has better luck with this than he did with BALTIMORE!

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Nice. Now I have to check out the source material. I hope The Unpleasant Profession Of Jonathan Hoag is still in-works though, I was really looking forward to it.